Now Walker wouldn’t mind bringing a little of that attention to his strip club, recently opened in Seattle’s Lake City neighborhood. He told me on the phone Monday that his offer is simple: Stodden gets $5,000 if she comes to the club on her 18th birthday (Aug. 29, 2012) and performs two five-minute stripteases — one at 7 p.m. and one at 11 p.m.

“She’s a walking tabloid, whatever she does right now,” Walker said. “So there’s the curiosity factor — the opposite of the fat tattooed lady at the circus, I think.”

He added: “I doubt very seriously that she’ll show up since she has her sight set on higher endeavors.”